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| Criterion |  UX Research Personas |  Innovation Starbursting |  Innovation Design Charrette |  UX Research User Interviews |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When target groups stay too vague and teams talk about the same people differently, personas create a shared, solid picture of usage. Condensed profiles make needs, contexts, and differences tangible enough for decisions. | Helps clarify ideas, open questions, and testable next steps in concrete terms. It opens the thinking space, collects ideas, and leads to testable options. The result is captured as a star-shaped question map, question list, and assumption list. | In a tightly timed design process with many participants, the method pools several lines of thinking in a short time. It brings parallel design energy without letting the discussion tip into endless coordination. This quickly produces solid directions for architecture or space. | When teams derive needs only from assumptions and real motives are missing, user interviews give direct access to behavior and meaning. Conversations from the target group's everyday life make patterns, tensions, and open questions solidly visible. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 Tage | 30-60 min | Halber Tag bis mehrere Tage | 30–60 min per interview |
Participantsdifferent | Internes Team | 3-10 | 10-50 | 1 participant per interview |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Persona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario Notes | Star-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption List | Sketches and Concepts, Consolidated Solution Sketch, Prioritized Direction | Interview Notes, Themes, Insight Summary |
Tagsno overlap | ResearchCustomerSynthesis | BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery | BrainstormingWorkshopCollaborationIdeation | QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery |